girls:
417 births since 1987
#5299 (7th percentile)
boys:
2.7k births since 1977
#2423 (47th percentile)
overall:
3.1k births since 1977
#4863 (37th percentile)
The name Najee is the #4,863 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,127 recorded births since 1977. This represents the 37.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 37.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,423 (47.1% percentile) for all time with 2,710 births since 1977. For girls, it ranks #5,299 (7.3% percentile) for all time with 417 births since 1987.
Najee first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1977 (1977 for boys and 1987 for girls). Birth data for Najee is available in 44 out of the 47 years between 1977 and 2023 (44 years for boys and 23 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Najee has been given predominantly to boys, with 86.7% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Najee were boys.
For boys, Najee reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 27.0% percentile (ranked #562) with 105 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 105 births per million (ranked 27.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Najee ranks #885 for boys (2.9% percentile) with 17 births per million, which is 16.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Najee reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 3.8% percentile (ranked #817) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 19 births per million (ranked 3.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2012.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Najee".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Najee. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 44.4% confident that Najee is pronounced as NAH-jee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is nah-JEE, at 38.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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